Carl Moritz Explained

Carl Moritz
Birth Date:27 April 1863
Birth Place:Berlin
Death Place:Berg
Alma Mater:Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg

Carl Moritz (27 April 1863 – 23 August 1944) was a German architect and real-estate entrepreneur. Based in Cologne, he built the Cologne Opera House of 1902, and various banks, theatres and churches in Germany. Some of his buildings were destroyed during the last two years of his life in World War II.

Career

Born in Berlin, Moritz studied architecture at the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg.[1] In 1894 he began his career as an independent architect in Berlin; the same year he took a study trip to England, one year later to Italy. From 1896 to 1898 he was inspector at the municipal building department in Cologne,[2] after which he worked there as a freelance architect. He founded eight architectural firms or companies in Cologne in the 1930s, working closely with the architects Albert Betten and Werner Stahl. In 1934 he retired and settled on Lake Starnberg, where he died in Berg, part of Starnberg.

A large part of his work involved bank building; during his career, Moritz designed about 40 banks, mostly for the Barmer Bank Corporation,[3] for whom he worked as a kind of house architect. About 50 houses and 15 housing estates by him are known. Moritz also planned twenty Catholic religious buildings and seven theatres, both construction tasks for which he can be considered a sought-after specialist. He was one of the developers of neo-Gothic architecture in Cologne.[4] He was very interested in the education of future generations, and during his career, held many lectures and wrote several publications.

Works

Moritz designed theatres, including the opera house in Cologne in 1902,[5] originally named the Stadttheater (Municipal Theatre).[6] It was destroyed in World War II,[5] as was his Stadttheater Düren (1907).

Buildings still in use today include the Opernhaus Wuppertal (1905, was badly damaged during World War II but partially rebuilt),[7] the Stralsund Theatre (1913),[8] the Stanisław Wyspianski Theatre, then "Neues Stadttheater" (New Municipal Theatre), in today's Katowice, and a baking factory that now hosts the Hans Peter Zimmer Art Foundation.[9] [10] Church buildings include (1910) and the in Münster (1930).[11]

In Cologne, he built the German: Stollwerckhaus in 1906,[12] and the in 1910.[13]

Publications

In: German: [[Deutsche Bauzeitung]], 1904

In: German: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, 1904, No. 77

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Konerding. Tünn. Herzogenrath. Wulf. Teuber. Dirk. Thiekötter, Angelika. Der Westdeutsche Impuls 1900-1914: Kunst und Umweltgestaltung im Industriegebiet. Die Deutsche Werkbund-Ausstellung, Cöln 1914 . 1984 . Cologne . . 256273800 . German . 180.
  2. Book: Fraquelli, Sybille . Im Schatten des Domes: Architektur der Neugotik in Köln 1815 - 1914 . Atlas, N.F. . 5 . Cologne . Böhlau . 2008 . 9783412201623 . 240 . German.
  3. Book: Fussbroich, Helmut. Architekturführer Köln: profane Architektur nach 1900. 17 July 2013. 1997. J.P. Bachem. German. 978-3-7616-1305-4. 25.
  4. Fraquelli, p. 302.
  5. Thorsten Leiendecker and Nadine Leiendecker
  6. Web site: Opernhaus am Rudolfplatz . 16 July 2013 . bilderbuch-koeln.de . German.
  7. Web site: Opernhaus. Architektur Wuppertal. German. 3 July 2013. 4 February 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160204195358/http://www.architektur-wuppertal.de/cms/front_content.php?idcat=3&idart=97. dead.
  8. Web site: Theater Vorpommern in Stralsund . 1 August 2013 . Theater Vorpommern . German . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130806101741/http://www.theater-vorpommern.de/theater/stralsund.html . 6 August 2013 .
  9. Web site: The Space. 16 July 2013. Hans Peter Zimmer Stiftung. https://web.archive.org/web/20140420025356/http://www.hans-peter-zimmer-stiftung.org/en/institution/der-ort/. 20 April 2014. dead.
  10. Web site: The Stanisław Wyspianski Theatre. 16 July 2013. Lost Tribe Productions.
  11. Web site: Quartier der Gegensätze . 14 April 2008 . 1 August 2013 . Westfälische Nachrichten . German.
  12. Web site: Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts : Das alte Stollwerck Haus. 1 August 2013 . bilderbuch-koeln.de .
  13. Web site: Gereonshaus im Kölner Bankenviertel wird neues Domizil des Deutschen Städtetages und des Städtetages NRW. 1 February 2010 . 1 August 2013 . staedtetag.de .

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